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the anger of muslim protesters in response to an american film. washington. which ignited a. sentiment that according to opinion has been brewing for years. russia's opposition comes together once again. with public sector workers joining for the first time.
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in. twenty four hours a day. by muslims who continue to bring a fifth straight day demonstrations spread to new countries and continents in response to a u.s. made for. across the latest developments. peace situation remains to extremely volatile with western leaders and middle eastern leaders urging for calm the united states has beefed up its security in overseas missions that have faced reinforcements to the capital yemenite city of samarra at the same time a quest to send its marines to be capital city of cops in the sudan was rejected by authorities there they say that they can deal with the security situation by themselves from libya we are hearing and of course this is where the american ambassador and three other high ranking you are stopping the killed from very clearly that for
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a grace have been made we have no information at this stage as to the identities of those are graced with but we are hearing that an announcement regarding these of race will be made soon both the united states and the libyan authorities of pointing at al qaida they say that the attack has the fingerprints of al qaida and al qaeda has released a statement and although it doesn't take responsibility directly for this attack in benghazi it has said that the attack was in response to the killing of all quite a number to buy you a stroke is at the same time we're also hearing that the f.b.i. has responded visit to libya to deal with the investigation because of security concerns in that country now also on saturday there were demonstrations in the capital from city of paris where the demonstrations were taking place near the american consulate there have also been demonstrations in belgium and some american protesters very clashed with police and as i mentioned earlier demonstrations also taking place in yemen where the you know cool client that has scored for more
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protests and also more killings of american staff members on saturday they believe one of the shots fired in yemen during clashes to prevent the crowds of protesters from a meeting of the american embassy there were also being demonstrations in sydney australia where the police used tear gas to fire at crowds we know. that the muslim population in australia is next in the same but anger there is bubbling over and then there were demonstrations in eleven on somalia iraq. and turkey so as we see this and high school it across the whole region in the united states who believed creator of this film nakoula basseley has been taken in by american authorities for questioning now he has said that he does not look great making this film although he does with great loss of life but we are hearing that he is considering releasing the full version of the film certainly the demonstrations here in cairo have lost
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momentum right now it is essentially a mop up operation but as i'm speaking to you he speaks he is all still cleaning up the degree of the gospel rocks in the stones that are left over from the last few days of fighting the united states and egypt are traditionally close pocket as it does seem as if this relationship is very rocky at the moment the last word we heard from president barack obama is that he does not consider egypt and i while at the same time he does not consider them an enemy. dr. dean of the school of international affairs believes people should search deeper fooled the root cause of the protests. but through district on the road in australia in foreign countries which are obvious from the epicenter of the arab spring region i think those are more spontaneous but of libya egypt yemen these are like post evolutionary societies and this is where you have seen the brunt of the islands and the skill of
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the progress seven rather high and i do these are politically orchestrated by local actors who are being backed by some of these rich donors from these don't want to also behind them dollar to assad in syria so i see this as a you know you are in many ways an extension of the proxy war that is going on in syria we're so efficient extreme fundamentalists have been unleashed in the name of toppling the assad regime the same sort of fees are no money for student loans you know why in the end and reactionary manner poor cranky feel that should have been ignored this is a connection did not these you cannot separate dreams we need to look at it in all of it together right now. also closely following the violence that continues to unfold throughout the arab world on our website at www. dot com we the protests timeline and in-depth analysis surpassed the profile of the man reportedly behind the scandalous it was in the film log on more it is our team dot com.
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washington struggling to contain the scandal condemning the controversial film calling for calm result is going to come reports the anti american fury has deeper roots than a reaction to a clip on you tube. as angry mobs in muslim countries stormed u.s. embassies and burned american flags the u.s. president delivers yet another speech about how good america's intentions were really are and have been in the muslim world america's a friend. and that we care not just about our own country not just about our own interests but about theirs that even as voices of suspicion and mistrust seek to divide countries and cultures from one another the united states of america will never retreat from the world. we will never stop working for the dignity and freedom that every person deserves it could be that the obama administration thinks
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by supporting revolutions by fostering regime change washington is winning the hearts and minds of the people in that part of the world but recent events showed that's not quite so if you look at poll numbers that gauge public attitude towards the u.s. in different muslim countries u.s. approval rating is the same as it was under president george w. bush in some countries like pakistan it's much worse and these numbers have nothing to do with the infamous film but they do have something to do with us policies you know we can rap any kind of purple finger revolution we want people to have democracy and have freedom but at the end of the day when we look at the results of what's been accomplished over two decades of being in this region destabilizing the region we have hundreds of millions of people who had it in a lot of cases had their world turned upside down and in many cases they've had relatives that have been killed in this process and we're building a enemies towards this country and you know it i think that there's a need for a major wake up call in the west especially the united states the way they've
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ministration is trying to somehow contain the blowback over this same type islamic film is by bashing the film and saying that they to find it disgusting but now it's clear to pretty much everyone that it's not just about the film this rage against the united states has been brewing for a while and it seems it needed just us bark to blow up and the film tragically provided that spark need ministrations soothing words about democracy don't seem to help much in putting out the flames of rage now sweeping across the arab world in washington i'm going to check on. george clooney a former american foreign service officer doesn't believe the u.s. is backing genuine democracy in the arab spring states. a large part of the problem is that the protesters are poor they're on happy they would like to have a better situation for their lives and that puts the u.s. in something of a dilemma because here we are we're supporting saudi arabia we're supporting bahrain where we're giving some rhetorical support to the so-called arab spring but
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is it the case that we're really supporting economic justice genuine democracy in these countries i don't think that case has been made and so. if the u.s. were to genuinely support the aspirations of the of the poor and the struggling middle class in these countries then there would we would have other problems in the in the consistency of our policy with regard to these these regimes that we're supporting for for other reasons for oil and so forth so it would put us in a very difficult situation to be honest i'm skeptical that that hillary clinton or this administration is up to that challenge. the u.s. made film is also offended the muslim community here in russia which makes up around fifteen percent of the population however no protest rallies are being held in the country and some of russia's muslim officials have condemned the anti-american riots and of russia's republic of chechnya says violence will not be
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tolerated and i'm saying could you did however criticize the film stressing that those behind it all the ones responsible for the killing of innocents by angry protest is. russia's opposition has gathered its first major demonstration following a sum a break however in much smaller numbers than seen previously and for the first time the anti-government movement is joined by public sector workers is r.t. you could. police say this rally was attended by up to twelve thousands of protestors opposition leaders say it's tens of thousands but i can tell you if
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there was water rise to be held until ten pm moscow time move the majority of the protesters a left before that despite the calls from one of the more radical leaders of the opposition said again as i saw for the for the people not to leave at least before ten pm we've heard very different demands today ranging from social related issues a way to freeze the tariffs for utility bills and to raise the salaries of social sector workers to political demands like the early presidential and parliamentary elections there's also been a lot of criticism of several new laws michigan passed a recently like the one on foreign agents which basically obliges n.g.o.s with foreign sponsors to be under a special government control and also the one aimed at protecting children from potentially harmful content in the media which many here people say that that's a new form of censorship if we talk about who attended this rally then they do
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represent completely different movements and ideas from kids to ultra nationalists communists socialists democrats gay rights activists and environmentalists and it's highly unlikely that what they would be able to meet anywhere else so rallies like this are a great platform for all of them to be able to voice their personal views freely and political analysts alexander sullivan of says opposition leaders don't provide their supporters with the clarity and motivation needed to unite them. speaking about a number of the demonstrators we have already seen that they were waiting in the big keep waiting crossings and life forms again is that despite all the rules and regulations we have to be very spirit. people and the very motivation that brings people into the streets and those people who really need to be motivating the mole in terms of the agenda. happening nationally.
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and so one of the liberals. talking to people asking for different things is all we can use it for the growth of the population because they cannot. solve the opposition movement you see looking at the crowd they are very very mixed we see teachers who sing students we see nationalists and they need to be given some. rather than again a collection slogan sometimes victorian age. well still ahead for the south the right to tweet freely. put out there for the general public so if you look at it's going to be used against one court you know we shouldn't set it you know it's going to incriminate himself that's his own fault. as twitter is forced to surrender private records to a new york we also people in the big apple if we're worried about that own internet freedoms plus. there's been an increase in pollution which is led to many health
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issues that we've been experiencing on. t.v. a lot of breathing problems. among them based enterprise targets a quarter of india with promises of prosperity and progress however. proved to be much higher the full story just ahead of me here on our team.
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the news continues now at sixteen very nearly sixty minutes past the hour tens of thousands of spaniards marched through the streets of madrid in protest against a new wave of measures the government is due to announce a first set of spending cuts by the end of the month. spoke to a little earlier here in our t. she's an economics professor at the business school in madrid and she says that huge numbers of skilled workers are now taking their chances abroad. they like
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to stay close to home this is one of the european countries where you know they probably will. but it's very difficult you know young spanish workers qualify because we don't have statistics of course but i would say probably close to half of them are looking outward you see it is janet job but you'll see people going to you who when in the u.k. were there a couple years brush my teeth were actually going to latin american looking for work engineers saying are you france or germany or switzerland or somewhere in sydney and stated so there is an exodus. is this are serious just pushing through here and i don't accept that there are you really see the light until maybe two thousand and fourteen. britain is investigating a scandal involving oil traders and city speculators who allegedly rigged the markets to hike pump prices this summer was say that drops in oil prices are being passed on to the consumers the soaring cost of petrol and diesel in the u.k.
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saw uproar among people already struggling with the country's double dip recession under a british campaign fairfield u.k. says that the country's economic hardship is directly related to oil costs. there is actually ok it's buried deep in doing there are many families who are having to choose between food and activity though in the car or their small town it really is that bad prices are now almost back at record levels for petrol and diesel are all keeping which we present to the u.k. government if the high petrol and diesel prices are one of the major called that the economy has slipped back into recession. and actually huge if families are having to spend nearly eight hundred ninety pounds sterling to show back how are they simply cannot spend on all the other things that make the economy moving. it
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america the anti corporate occupy movements aiming to surge back into the headlines on its first anniversary activists are running support for demonstrations in new york before they plan to descend on wall street once again on monday the movement spread across the u.s. last year with mass rallies against economic inequality taking place in dozens of cities police crackdown and several demonstrations unleashing tear gas and making felons of arrests and tent camps from public parks activists. to learn he believes that the anti corporate movement may take new forms but it's here to stay . i would say without a doubt if one looks at the world right now one looks at what's happening in the middle east in spain to greece everywhere there's a confrontation going on against the one percent so the idea that somehow the u.s. is exceptional and it's just a small passing phase i mean the u.s. is part of the world capitalist economy in the world capitalist economy is in a state of collapse profits rule and we just get more as we just get on
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foreclosures we just get mass unemployment get all this wealth exist loose not utilized for even good so absolutely we're going to see more of it may take on a different character in organized labor and chicago in the chicago teachers strike maybe cause more problems than it was in the early days of occupy wall street but there's going to be more confrontations because the system. the battle between twitter and the authorities for access to the records of an occupy wall street activist attracted wide attention with many saying prosecutors of violating privacy laws all resident just hit the streets of new york to find out how people really feel about their virtual freedoms. a manhattan judge has ordered twitter to release the tweets of an occupy wall street protester and those tweets are expected to be used against him in a criminal trial is that an invasion of his privacy and right to free speech this week let's talk about that so let's say it was
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a terrorist saying ok let's go attack somebody what it was it was it was an american expressing his views. you know just trying to get his message out there ok some would call him a terrorist and the person that you might think is a terrorist might feel like they're just expressing them their needs and what they're frustrated. i don't know if we always seem to be you know. giving you information that you haven't been revealed yet or are broadcast yet so i appreciate that about we're going to hope it never stops as he put out there for the general public so. it's going to be used against him in court you know we shouldn't set it you know he's going to incriminate himself that's his own fault that what you say under free speech is so it should still be subject to law yeah if i go on television and tell everybody how to avoid cops or to commit a crime and get away with it and do it on television you know smile false i think the most interesting thing about twitter is if the internet is not journalism but
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writing is going to start to say more of a hold than it probably needs to be treated similar soon newspaper ads or other things that might be written in print media and so i'm not sure if twitter should give it up. if they want to start to grow i think they might have to do what about that person's right to their own tweets and their privacy depends how serious the matter is i think yeah i think. that line do you trust the government to draw that line i don't know if you don't want to in the public you don't put it out on. public to you so it's kind of a canvas screaming out a window. so i think like most people agree because social media is taking a more important role in social justice change and counterculture the laws around social media are going to have to evolve as well.
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more world news and. the new un envoy to syria says this crisis in the country is escalating and poses a danger to the entire world like the brain is now in damascus and those really president assad is one of several diplomats opposition leaders both the rebels and government forces still ignore calls to end the fighting the battles continuing in syria's main city to homes which activists say one hundred sixty people were killed across the nation on friday. police in south africa rubber bullets at striking mine workers in the area this after a raid on hospitals used by workers resulted in the arrest of at least twelve people on friday the government enough to crack down on the strike which has already halted production at several platinum and gold mines the unrest a ruptured last month after police shot dead thirty four striking workers.
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a taliban attack on the camp bastion nato base forced prince harry to cut short his service in afghanistan the taliban admitted that the prince was the target of an assault that claimed the lives of two u.s. marines twenty eight year old captain wales as he's known in the military currently serves as an apache attack helicopter pilot in afghanistan and is the first member of the royal family to take part in the conflict for over thirty years. but when big business arrives in a small town the promise of employment and opportunity is never far behind but when the dream turns sour it's often the little people who are left to pick up the pieces of the. indian community who are refusing to back down. it's one of the most serene and sacred places in india me i'm gary hills home to the. tribe every years thousands of tribal people here have been relocated by a london based conglomerate the vedanta group it wanted to mine into mountains
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considered sacred to extract the aluminum or box a for use in its refineries specially built nearby but the social and environmental costs have been high to the income source of people from three hundred fifty villages have been destroyed so what will these people do they depend on the land and forest for their livelihood believe that their land is their mother father god we have a deep respect for their land but for now the indian government has kicked out saying the group has violated forest conservation and environmental protection laws that since. while some say india could stimulate its economy by accessing its natural resources the people in this community believe that their land is sacred and they're not going to let any foreign corporations come in and destroy it praful my haji says that vedanta took two acres of his land promised him compensation but that he never received anything and it's not just his communities environment that
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has been destroyed he says that the actions of the company have damaged the wellbeing of local people so there's been an increase in the lucian which is led to many health issues. and. problems vedanta did not respond to our requests for comment but has said in the past that it believes it can make significant contributions to the people of the area and bring development to the region critics however say that hasn't happened most of the local people that we've spoken to feel that they've had promises made by the company that have just been broken and that they only have they not received develop. from the company but fundamentally they do not want development of the company all they want is to be allowed to live their lives and pace the confrontation has received attention from high profile figures like movie director james cameron who compared the dispute to a real life avatar vedanta are trying to appeal the decision by the indian
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government in a bid to allow them to continue their work but for now local people are celebrating their victory in preserving their ancestral lands. who will work towards our development and he will not we want to live the way we did go fool vedantic came here and it seems like they might have the chance to do just that the john grier can say they'll fight for what's there is no matter who they're up against preassure either r.t. or india. to bring up that for the moment because the report takes a look behind the financial headlines in a few minutes but before that i'll be back with an update of our top stories we want you all to you we're live here in moscow.
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wealthy british style. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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with mike's concert for a no holds global financial headlines two kinds of reports. and . more news today. the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corporations are the day. to. listen with.
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a special welcome to all the ladies and agents from the n.s.a. so you and i might fight. because. spreading from the streets as we speak.

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